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August 27, 2024

"There's No Lifeboat to Take Us Back:" U.N. Head Demands Urgent Action Before Pacific Islands Wiped Out
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Major polluting nations including the United States are facing new calls
to pay for their role in causing the climate crisis. At a major summit
in the Pacific, the message from low-lying Tuvalu was: "If you pollute,
you should pay." U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres spoke in Tonga
and said ocean temperatures are rising in the Pacific Islands at three
times the rate worldwide.

Secretary-General António Guterres: "The world must look to the Pacific
and listen to science. This is a crazy situation. Rising seas are a
crisis entirely of humanity's making, a crisis that will soon swell to
an almost unimaginable scale, with no lifeboat to take us back to
safety. But if we save the Pacific, we also save ourselves. The world
must act and answer the SOS before it's too late."



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